The world of light novel publication is a fast and furious affair where imitation is the highest form of flattery. When an idea hits it big, you can bet your bottom dollar (or your smallest yen coin) that a slew of series with similar premises …Read more »
If you’ve ever been made fun of, you’ll immediately gravitate to Masamune-kun’s Revenge, the show that pits two very different individuals against each other because of a childhood argument. Masamune Makabe and Aki Adagaki are forever at each other’s throats, thanks to Masamune’s decision to …Read more »
Some racers race for fame and fortune. Some race to be the best. Toppu Uno races for his big sister. The beautiful Myne Uno is an expert motorbiker, and all the guys on the track love her, but she only cares about the thrill of …Read more »
The furballs are back! When we last left them (four years ago!), the tanuki of the Shimogamo family found out exactly how their patriarch came to be the main ingredient in the Friday Club’s hot pot, the heartbroken-gone-mad Soun was banished from tanuki society, and the …Read more »
In/Spectre is a entertaining supernatural thriller peppered with romance and plenty of yokai (Japanese monsters). When Kotoko was 11 she mysteriously disappeared for weeks, only to return missing an eye and a leg. The missing parts were a price she willingly paid to become the …Read more »
It’s nigh impossible to capture lightning in a bottle, but the 2014-2015 TV anime The Seven Deadly Sins succeeds. An excellent adaptation of a popular fantasy adventure manga, The Seven Deadly Sins is the perfect balance of overpowered action, slapstick comedy, and honest human drama. …Read more »
High schooler Natsuo finds temporary distraction from his crush on his teacher when a girl at a party asks him to help her lose her virginity. She is calm and clear about having no intention of seeing him again, leaving him with mixed feelings. However, …Read more »
Kameko Shimana hates her life, she hates her name (it sounds weird in Japanese), and she hates her new stepmother and baby brother, even though she knows they didn’t really do anything wrong. Depressed ever since her mother’s death, she thinks dark thoughts and skips …Read more »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a human, a demon, and a Buddha walk into a temple … in an alternate dimension through a drawing as led by a magical priest and his anthropomorphic rabbit-wife. Wait, you’ve not yet seen the humorous, touching, …Read more »
As a teenager, one of the first things I loved about romance manga was that characters expressed anxiety about love and sex … not like in mainstream Western media, where sex seemed like just something beautiful people just did, and if you didn’t do it, …Read more »
After a breakup, Minare Koda drowns her sorrows with a group of strangers. The next morning she remembers nothing, but in the middle of her shift as a waitress she hears her own voice coming through the radio, a drunken ramble recorded the night before. …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
With all the hubbub surrounding the live-action Hollywood Ghost in the Shell —which will have been out for a bit and thoroughly critiqued by the masses by the time you read this—it’s easy to forget about Mamoru Oshii’s anime film sequel to the original, Ghost …Read more »
For a solid recent example of sakuga, Trigger's Little Witch Academia (now a TV anime!) short is truly exceptional. Since the days of Astro Boy , the Japanese animation industry has by and large followed a conservative production model, relying on cost-saving limited animation tricks. …Read more »
BONES hasn’t been around as long as some anime studios, but the company—founded by Sunrise staffers Toshihiro Kawamoto, Masahiko Minami, and the late Hiroshi Osaka (animation director on Escaflowne , Cowboy Bebop , and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie—Conqueror of Shamballa ), who sadly passed in …Read more »
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